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Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Epilobium hirtigerum A.Cunn., Ann. Nat. Hist. 3: 33 (1839)
Synonymy:
- ≡ Epilobium junceum var. hirtigerum Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 60 (1852)
- ≡ Epilobium junceum var. hirtigerum (A.Cunn.) Curtis (1963)
Original material (according to the protologue): "New Zealand (Northern Island). Skirts of forests round Wangaroa Harbour. – 1833, R. Cunningham".
Type: Allan (1961: 279) stated the following: "Type locality: Skirts of forests round W[h]angaroa Harbour. Type: R. Cunningham 1833". Raven and Raven (1976) refined that typification statement: "Skirts of forest on west side of Whangaroa Harbour, North Auckland, New Zealand, 1833, Richard Cunningham 546 (K. Isotype, WELT)".
- = Epilobium brasiliense Hausskn. (1879)
Description
Robust herb, 20–140 cm tall, usually not branched, with numerous vigorous leafy stolons from base, hirsute, densely covered everywhere with long spreading hairs, and often greyish, usually with a layer of shorter erect hairs and also with glandular hairs in infl. Lvs linear to very narrowly lanceolate, 1.5–6 × 0.2–0.8 cm. Floral tube 0.5–0.9 mm deep, with a conspicuous ring of long white hairs inside. Petals white or rose-purple, 2.8–8 × 1.8–5.2 mm, often < sepals. Capsule densely hairy, 3.5–6 cm long; fruiting pedicel 0.6–1.5 cm long.
[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]
Biostatus
Indigenous (Non-endemic)
Phenology
Flowering: Oct.–Mar.
Bibliography
Cunningham, A. 1839: Florae insularum Novae Zelandiae precursor; or a specimen of the botany of the islands of New Zealand. Annals of Natural History 3: 29–34.
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Hitchmough, R.; Townsend, A.J. 2009: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand (2008 revision). New Zealand Journal of Botany 47: 61–96. [Nationally Critical]
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A.; Heenan, P.B.; Courtney, S.P.; Molloy, B.P.J.; Ogle, C.C.; Rance, B.D. 2004: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 42(1): 45–76.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Barkla J.W.; Courtney, S.P.; Champion, P.D.; Perrie, L.R.; Beadel, S.N.; Ford, K.A.; Breitwieser, I.; Schönberger, I.; Hindmarsh-Walls, R.; Heenan, P.B.; Ladley, K. 2018: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2017. New Zealand Threat Classification Series. No. 22. [Recovering]
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Champion, P.D.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Norton, D.A.; Hitchmough, R.A. 2013: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2012. New Zealand Threat Classification Series 3. Department of Conservation, Wellington. [Nationally Critical]
Hooker, J.D. 1852–1853 ("1853"): The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in the Years 1839–1843, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross. II. Flora Novae-Zelandiae. Part I. Flowering plants. Lovell Reeve, London.
Mosyakin, S.L.; de Lange, P.J.; Antonenko, S.I.; Klimovych, N.B. 2020: Types and other historical specimens of Allan and Richard Cunningham's taxa of Epilobium and Fuchsia (Onagraceae) from New Zealand in the Turczaninow Herbarium at the National Herbarium of Ukraine (KW). Ukrainian Botanical Journal 77(4): 249–269.
Raven, P.H.; Raven, T. E. 1976: The Genus Epilobium (Onagraceae) in Australasia: a Systematic and Evolutionary Study. New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Bulletin 216: 1–321.
